Delete spaces from cells

kin

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Hello

I have thousands of records where spaces have been included can I remove them at once?

thanks
 

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Richard Schollar

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Select the cells/Columns and go Edit>Replace and type a space in the find box and leave the Replace one blank and click Replace All
 
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kin

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did nt work
 
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sanrv1f

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Office Version
  1. 2016
Platform
  1. Windows
are u sure they are spaces,

if they are any non printable charactor then try using

Trim()

or

Clear ()
 
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Richard Schollar

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Did you actually try what I suggested? If it didn't work you likely have a character which isn't a space (probably a character 160).
 
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kin

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the data are downloaded from SAP is there any way that I can spot and eliminate characters coming in from other programs?
 
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